And the most common occupation was... the average rank-and-file employee! So was it the year of the regular joe after all?
Well, not quite. A survey of the past year...
Moon Sori in Legend
I haven't seen many of the dramas mentioned (they're mostly historical dramas, which I've noted is not something I regularly watch). Some of the following...
Riding the Wave of Popularity for Drama "Coffee Prince," Cafe Launches in Hongdae
MBC embarks on franchise; first store of opens in Hongdae's "Theater Chu" on the 20th
Before...
Following up on this earlier report on CNN's "Eye on South Korea" special broadcast, actor-superstar Jang Dong Gun's interview on Talk Asia aired on CNN on the 14th. I missed...
Kwon Sang Woo returns to television after three years in the upcoming KBS Monday-Tuesday drama (starting December 3) Wretched Love (a more apt but slangy translation could be "Screwed-up Love"), which...
Sexy actress Kim Sun Ah, who'd had a fairly lengthy resume but vaulted to superfame in My Name Is Kim Sam Soon, is back after a rather quiet past two...
Fascinating.
(Although, I'd hate to be called a "What the hell?!" writer. Oh, wait, was that just an invitation? Very well. Everyone gets a freebie "What the hell?!")
Personally, I...
The top 10 kdrama occupations of the past year
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And the most common occupation was... the average rank-and-file employee! So was it the year of the regular joe after all? Well, not quite. A survey of the past year...
Tags: lists
Miscast
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Moon Sori in Legend I haven't seen many of the dramas mentioned (they're mostly historical dramas, which I've noted is not something I regularly watch). Some of the following...
Tags: Bae Yong-joon, Gu Hye-sun, Jumong, Kim Mi-ryeo, Kim Myung-min, King and I, Lee Seo-jin, Legend, Moon Sori, Yi San
Birth of a franchise: Coffee Prince cafe opens
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Riding the Wave of Popularity for Drama "Coffee Prince," Cafe Launches in Hongdae MBC embarks on franchise; first store of opens in Hongdae's "Theater Chu" on the 20th Before...
Tags: Coffee Prince
Follow-up: Jang Dong Gun’s CNN interview
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Following up on this earlier report on CNN's "Eye on South Korea" special broadcast, actor-superstar Jang Dong Gun's interview on Talk Asia aired on CNN on the 14th. I missed...
Tags: Jang Dong-gun
Blast from kpop’s past
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Wow, here's one to make you feel really old. (Or really young, I suppose.) Back in the Stone Ages, aka the '90s, there was a pop group that was...
Kwon Sang Woo screws up love, but in a manly way
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Kwon Sang Woo returns to television after three years in the upcoming KBS Monday-Tuesday drama (starting December 3) Wretched Love (a more apt but slangy translation could be "Screwed-up Love"), which...
Tags: Bad Love, Kwon Sang-woo
Kim Sun Ah to make her comeback
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Sexy actress Kim Sun Ah, who'd had a fairly lengthy resume but vaulted to superfame in My Name Is Kim Sam Soon, is back after a rather quiet past two...
Tags: comebacks, Kim Sun-ah, My Name Is Kim Sam-soon
Return of the “What the hell–?!” writers
by javabeans
Fascinating. (Although, I'd hate to be called a "What the hell?!" writer. Oh, wait, was that just an invitation? Very well. Everyone gets a freebie "What the hell?!") Personally, I...
Tags: Golden Age for Daughters-in-Law, Madam Ah Hyun Dong, scriptwriters
And yet, I probably still won’t see it
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Huh. So J.J. Abrams is doing the newest Star Trek movie, and at least this time he doesn't have a TV series to sink while off trying to revive...
Tags: Hollywood
Lee Eon picks his first post-Coffee Prince project
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Actor Lee Eon, fresh from his role as dumb but lovable Min Yub in Coffee Prince (like I really need to identify him on this site, huh?), will be...
Tags: Coffee Prince, Lee Eon